Nokia adds sight recognition to HERE Maps for Windows Phone 8

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/09/nokia-city-lens-video.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Six months after promising to integrate sight recognition technology into its HERE suite of apps, Nokia has finally updated HERE Maps with LiveSight. The update is available today in the Windows Phone app store and requires Windows Phone 8. By tapping a button in HERE Maps, users can enter LiveSight mode, which will scan the surrounding area and pull up relevant information about nearby locations, like addresses, phone numbers and ratings. Lumia owners familiar with Nokia's City Lens app will recognize the virtual signs attached to buildings viewed through the camera display and the HERE Maps version of LiveSight appears to have similar functionality -- including HERE's strongest selling point, offline access. If you want to see LiveSight in action, you can watch Nokia's preview video after the break.</div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Zg-_9jj86NY?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

Nokia adds sight recognition to HERE Maps for Windows Phone 8

Six months after promising to integrate sight recognition technology into its HERE suite of apps, Nokia has finally updated HERE Maps with ...

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Hands-on with Nokia JobLens on the Lumia 925: what a way to make a living

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="p1 image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Hands-on with Nokia JobLens on the Lumia 925: what a way to make a living (video)" data-src-height="427" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/05/job-lens-lead.jpg" /></div><div class="p1" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">We're hoping we won't need to use Nokia's JobLens app for real any time soon, but at the Lumia 925 launch event, we thought we'd at least explore our options. It's essentially a proximity-based job searching tool that, in the lens mode, is much like the CityLens AR app for Lumias, and points you in the direction of your next potential employer using icons on top of the realtime camera view. In another mode, JobLens uses the Here Maps platform to show you a top-down view of openings in your vicinity, and can subsequently direct you to your interview on time. From either views, you can poke at vacancies to see more about the job and share it, email it to yourself, or respond directly with a CV -- various sites populate the in-app listings. The software also integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn so you can hit up your contacts for the inside track. No word on a release date yet, but we imagine it'll coincide with the Lumia 925 launch. As they say, it's who you know that counts, and now we know Matt from Nokia, who treated us to a quick tour of the app in the video after the break.</div><div class="p1" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><b>Update:</b> we've been having trouble with the video -- it works on some devices and not others. It may work for you right now, but if not -- we're working on a fix.</div><div class="p1" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><b>Update #2:</b> This should now be working for everybody. Apologies for the delay!</div></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="349" id="viddler-cb55d052" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="//www.viddler.com/embed/cb55d052/?f=1&offset=0&autoplay=0&secret=14759457&disablebranding=0&view_secret=14759457" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="545"></iframe></div>

Hands-on with Nokia JobLens on the Lumia 925: what a way to make a living

We're hoping we won't need to use Nokia's JobLens app for real any time soon, but at the Lumia 925 launch event, we thought we&...

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